Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[FireFox]

Luckly my friend is building a pc and im selling it to him 

 

Your friend is building a PC and you're selling it to him, so the computer you are selling needs constructing first?

[joelthezombie15]

Your friend is building a PC and you're selling it to him, so the computer you are selling needs constructing first?

no im selling the motherboard because i got it before i made my mind 

[FireFox]

no im selling the motherboard because i got it before i made my mind 

 

Ahh cool, kind of misleading:P

 

Thought you was selling the whole PC to him that he was building:)

[joelthezombie15]

Ahh cool, kind of misleading:P

 

Thought you was selling the whole PC to him that he was building:)

no just the motherboard. 

[Nathan]

Installing Ubuntu, quickly reading through the pages.. accidently formated 1Tb external rather then the 100gb primary drive

[pcexplosion]

i was cleaning my PC and i accedently pushed it off a desk, didn't post after that luckily it was only the mobo that was messed up.

[JohnnyGrey]

Letting a PSU cable get stuck in my GPU's fan, and wondering why my computer was shutting down in the middle of a game :P Luckily the GPU survived!

[BgG286]

I divided by zero...

 

Seriously though, it would have to be the time I thought a graphics card had died because I didn't push the HDMI connector in fully, then reseated the card, fixed the HDMI cable, and forgot the plug in the PCIe 6 pin, then repeated these mistakes for a good 20 minutes, until I eventually got it right and the card worked. 

I had the EXACT same thing happen to me, only it was with a DVI cable. Now i always tighten the screws on it as tight as they go to eliminate that issue in future troubleshooting. That was the biggest headache I had. Another issue I had was when I accidentally nudged my computer a little too far back, loosening the power cable, proceeding to shut my computer off while my dad was in the room. He was extremely nervous which only led me to be even more nervous thinking that my brand new computer shorted out. Luckily, I just plugged it back in and it worked just fine.

[lhikary]

tricks are for kids

[radwimp]

Buying an emachine instead of building my own ten years ago.

[Ghost Taco]

I used 2 different kind of screws while screwing my mobo to the standoffs. 

[Wasabay]

I once Bent the pins on my cpu took like 3 days to straighten the pins again to working order (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+).

Also broke the cable routing clamps on the back panel of my corsair c70 just the middle one all the cable management mess.

[Str_Mape]

Spilling soup on my mechanical keyboard.
Took it apart, wiped it down left it for a few days and it now works fine.
I had no spare keyboard so was using my onscreen keyboard (It was so terrible)

[SwedishStyle]

When I got my first computer, all I did with it was draw things in paint (naturally). One day I couldn't save any more paintings because I had no space left on the disk (it was like a 1gb drive or something running windows 95). I had a hunt around for things to delete - "oh, what's this Windows folder? Full of junk, lets get rid of that!"

It still worked after that! A lot of things broke, but it booted and ran surprisingly!

[29065]

Delete the system 32 folder while drunk

[Vitalius]

I bought a GPU that usually cost $250 for $150 at a brick and mortar story I've never heard of before (Altex). 

Turned out to be a very bad choice of the Silicon lottery. Don't get me wrong, it's still running 2 years later, but it gets to 90C far too easily even when underclocked. It's crazy.

[skullbringer]

Logitech G930 headset fell into tomato soup. Damn you wireless music while cooking!!

[Critical Jeff]

When I was into Xbox case modding, cutting the wires to the exhaust fan. I forget exactly why I wanted to cut the wires. I think I was trying to hack the fan to run at 12v all the time. Then wondering why my xbox was overheating, after the fan stopped working. I solved it by buying a whole new xbox.

[Mr. Brovahkiin]

Deleting ntuser because my virus program couldn't scan it thinking it was a virus. I WAS 12 LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

[CaptRex635]

There was once where I accidentally pulled out my GTX 580 without realizing that my computer was in standby mode. It wrecked my drivers, had to uninstall and re-install them.  :mellow:

[Smeeoh]

Cleaning my computer for the first time ended with me bending a bunch of pins on my cpu. After a few months I finally attempted to fix it, and with a one of Linus' videos I achieved what I thought was impossible...and learned a very very valuable lesson.

[Brianbrain]

Take out a CPU then smash the pins into the socket to make it go inside then cry for 3 months

[ajoy39]

Probabaly the biggest and worst mistake was installing windows 8. Windows 8 completly destroyed my partition table, so i had to restore about 1,8 TB of Data.

Even Linux didn't make such a mess...

What do you mean exactly? I am running Windows 8 right now, my primary drive has 2 partitions. The 100 MB system reserved and then everything else. My other drives have just the 1 partition. I did do an upgrade from 7 though, so that might effect it.

[MathijsZ77]

My most time consuming one was when I got out a dremel, and spent hours tediously grinding away at the hard drive cages of a couple dells, until i realized there was a tab, that you pressed to have them all slide out. The most terrifying time was either when I dropped a stack of motherboards and destroyed two semprons and a pheanom, or when I was case modding with my system still inside, (yeah, stupid, right?) and I drilled through a PCIE 1x slot. It still worked, though!  :lol:

 

Same story here, tried to open my Dell desktop pc with a screwdriver. When I got all of them screws out the damn side panel wouldn't come off! Wrenched the damn thing with a flat head but it wasn't coming off... Silly me  :huh:

[BgG286]

Same story here, tried to open my Dell desktop pc with a screwdriver. When I got all of them screws out the damn side panel wouldn't come off! Wrenched the damn thing with a flat head but it wasn't coming off... Silly me  :huh:

Are you talking about one of those stupid ones where on the back of the case you have to pull a little lever down and the side panel basically falls off? I did the same thing with one before. At least a good 5-10 minutes were spent trying to get the darn thing off. It had me sweating!